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    The Foundry Lab at Vellore Institute of Technology conducts research and training in metal casting. It has equipment for mold preparation, melting metals, and casting processes like squeeze casting and vacuum casting. The lab's goals include supporting foundry industries through research, developing new casting materials and techniques, and providing consultancy services. It is equipped with various machines and has research interests in areas like solidification modeling, composite materials development, and process optimization. The lab is headed by Prof. Chinmay P. Mohanty.

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    The Foundry Lab at Vellore Institute of Technology conducts research and training in metal casting. It has equipment for mold preparation, melting metals, and casting processes like squeeze casting and vacuum casting. The lab's goals include supporting foundry industries through research, developing new casting materials and techniques, and providing consultancy services. It is equipped with various machines and has research interests in areas like solidification modeling, composite materials development, and process optimization. The lab is headed by Prof. Chinmay P. Mohanty.

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    The Foundry Lab at Vellore Institute of Technology conducts research and training in metal casting. It has equipment for mold preparation, melting metals, and casting processes like squeeze casting and vacuum casting. The lab's goals include supporting foundry industries through research, developing new casting materials and techniques, and providing consultancy services. It is equipped with various machines and has research interests in areas like solidification modeling, composite materials development, and process optimization. The lab is headed by Prof. Chinmay P. Mohanty.

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    Department of Manufacturing Engineering

    Foundry Lab

    In foundry laboratory metal castings are produced. Metals are cast into shapes by melting
    them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the
    metal has solidified as it cools. A sample pictorial view of the casting operation is shown in
    Fig.1 below.

    Fig.1 investment casting operation


    Objectives of foundry Laboratory

    Foundry Lab is at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore is a part of School of Mechanical


    Engineering and it is equipped with state of the art research facilities viz. molten material
    preparation, sand testing equipment, various casting machines etc. The major objectives of
    the foundry lab are given below:
     To promote interdisciplinary research and industry driven innovation in the fields of
    materials and manufacturing.
     Conduct cutting-edge research in foundry technology to provide new materials and
    processes for foundry industries to remain competitive
     To support industries by developing cost effective engineering technologies and
    providing novel solutions through consultancy services.
     To provide a collaborative research mechanism for creating innovative technologies
    in the fields of materials and manufacturing.

    Major research facilities


    Foundry lab is equipped with the state of the art research
    facilitates for upgrading skills with the following
    equpments.
    1. Weighing machine
    2. Sand Rammer machine
    3. Universal strength machine
    4. Permeability machine
    5. Muller Machine
    6. Mixer machine Fig. 2 Foundry Lab QR code
    7. Oven 450˚C
    8. Stir casting machine
    9. Squeeze casting machine
    10. Vacuum casting machine
    11. Centrifugal casting
    12. Vacuum furnace 1700 ˚C
    13. High temperature box furnace
    Major Research interest

     Solidification modeling and pouring, feeding, heat and fluid flow; predicting
    solidification sequence and structure-properties
     Developing new solidification processes and novel casting techniques
     Developing metal matrix microparticle and nanoparticle composites
     Developing metal matrix-carbon nanoparticle and nanotube composites
     Characterizing and measuring physical and mechanical properties
     Statistical quality and process control, statistical design of experimentation, and
    reliability in foundries
     Aluminum alloy castings
     Grain refinement, modification, slag, and inclusion control

    Faculties involved

    Name of the Faculty


    Prof. Senthil Kumaran
    Prof. Ariful Rahaman
    Prof. Sundermali
    Prof. Raja Annamalai
    Prof. Jambeswar Sahu
    Prof. Chinmaya P Mohanty
    Prof. Solomon Bobby
    Prof. Benedict Thomas
    Prof. Jayakrishna K
    Prof. Rajamurugan
    Prof. Prabu K
    Prof. Venkateswarlu
    Prof. Raghuraman DRS
    Contact Us:
    Happy to answer any queries and supply
    Foundry lab equipments information about our work. Please
    contact Prof. Chinmay P. Mohanty for
    further details.
    Dr. Chinmay P Mohanty
    Assistant Professor Sr.
    Foundry Lab (in-charge)
    Department of Manufacturing
    Engineering
    School of Mechanical Engineering
    Vellore Institute of Technology (Vellore
    Campus)
    Vellore-632014
    e-mail: [email protected]
    Mobile: 9438480248

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